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Portal 64 dev says “don’t be mad at Valve” for the project’s shutdown (www.pcgamesn.com)
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[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago (2 children)

You won't see a game advertised as "from that developer who made that thing", rather the dev's employers will see that through their job application.

There's a long history of modders being hired for things. CounterStrike was a mod to Half Life; Valve hired the modders to help make Source. Desert Combat was a mod to BattleField 1942; DICE hired the modders to help make BF2. Any coding project that someone participates in can be used to get a job.

Making indie games is only half the battle. Indie games often don't have the polish that comes from experienced coders - indie games tend to succeed on their ideas, in spite of a lack of technical expertise.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

Back 4 Blood is got a lot of traction initially by saying it was a spiritual successor and made by the same people as Left 4 Dead (1). Of course, nobody plays it anymore because it turned out to be a meh game, but boy did people check it out!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

CD Projekt RED also hired some mod developers.